CVE-2024-56778
Moderate
drm/sti: avoid potential dereference of error pointers in sti_hqvdp_atomic_check
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: avoid potential dereference of error pointers in sti_hqvdp_atomic_check The return value of drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() needs to be checked. To avoid use of error pointer 'crtc_state' in case of the failure.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
January 8, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2024-56778
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: avoid potential dereference of error pointers in sti_hqvdp_atomic_check The return value of drm_atomic_get_crtc_state() needs to be checked. To avoid use of error pointer 'crtc_state' in case of the failure.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31c857e7496d34e5a32a6f75bc024d0b06fd646a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b0d0d6e9d3c26697230bf7dc9e6b52bdb24086f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82a5312f874fb18f045d9658e9bd290e3b0621c0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/837eb99ad3340c7a9febf454f41c8e3edb68ac1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1ab40a1fdfee732c7e6ff2fb8253760293e47e8
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/56xxx/CVE-2024-56778.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56778